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0 pointsgonvaled7y ago0 comments

This is the story [1].

Without a truly independent power standing strong, we would still be flying the Max.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19356138

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The first three top-level comments all laud the decision. That would appear to be the opposite of your central claim that May I remember that most HN jumped to defend Boeing and the FAA, without a shred of evidence?.

Maybe you would be able to make a better point if you dropped the jingoism and histrionics. It can also be helpful to not lump the tens of thousands of people here into one bin of “HN did x” when trying to make that point.

gonvaledOP7y ago

My central claim is this:

> It took China for once having an independent policy instead of "impartial" agencies pushing their agenda onto a defenseless world.

And I stand by my comment about HN: I clearly remember the bias on the discussion. The top comments are top comments once the story settles. And the replies to those comments show a different picture.

> Maybe you would be able to make a better point if you dropped the jingoism and histrionics.

There is something worse than being slightly offensive: being biased and pushing damaging narratives onto the rest of us.

Let's notice that the truth has come out because a Max crash would also affect americans. Whenever interests are not so nicely alligned, we in the rest of the world end up paying the price.

toufiqbarhamov7y ago

You keep raising the issue of bias, but the one piece of supporting “evidence” for that bias doesn’t support your claim. You brush that off by saying it changed “after the story settled” as if that meant something.

I’m thinking that a mirror might help you with your bias concerns.

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mikeash7y ago· 2 in thread

I looked at every top-level comment on that story and didn’t see a single one defending Boeing or the FAA.

gonvaledOP7y ago

See my reply to your sibling

mikeash7y ago

I don’t see how that addresses what I said. I didn’t just look at the most upvoted comments. I looked at all of the top-level comments. Not one of them was as you said.

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gonvaledOP7y ago

My central claim is this:

> It took China for once having an independent policy instead of "impartial" agencies pushing their agenda onto a defenseless world.

> Maybe you would be able to make a better point if you dropped the jingoism and histrionics.

There is something worse than being slightly offensive: being biased and pushing damaging narratives onto the rest of us.

Let's notice that the truth has come out because a Max crash would also affect americans. Whenever interests are not so nicely alligned, we in the rest of the world end up paying the price.

toufiqbarhamov7y ago

I’m thinking that a mirror might help you with your bias concerns.

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mikeash7y ago· 2 in thread

I looked at every top-level comment on that story and didn’t see a single one defending Boeing or the FAA.

gonvaledOP7y ago

See my reply to your sibling

mikeash7y ago

I don’t see how that addresses what I said. I didn’t just look at the most upvoted comments. I looked at all of the top-level comments. Not one of them was as you said.

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